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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£1.1M
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Spending
£1.1M
Public benefits
The direct benefits are as follows: 1. Improved health & wellbeing (both mental and physical) of participants engaging in both sport & physical activity, via the utilisation of NICSSA's comprehensive range of facilities, programmes, events & training workshops. 2. Increased opportunities to unite the local community through the delivery of
community sport & physical recreation programmes, activities & events. 3. Improved social inclusion and tolerance by all, via cross community membership and the delivery of a range of community programmes & events, for the wider public benefit. 4. Opportunity to ease both the financial and administrative burden on sports clubs, community and voluntary sector groups, across NI through the provision of improved, affordable facilities. The benefits set out above are and will continue to be evidenced through feedback from all users of our facilities and programmes, including schools, community groups, governing bodies of sport, sports teams, and general members of the public. The benefits are also supported by the increasing number of individuals & groups utilising the facilities for sport & physical activity. Whilst there may be a risk to those taking part in sporting activities, the potential risk of harm is both rare and relatively minor in comparison to the overall benefits of participating in sport and physical activity. NICSSA's health & safety logs clearly demonstrate the low level of injuries/harm obtained via the utilisation/engagement of the organisation's facilities and programmes. However, clearly articulated procedures are in place documenting steps to react to and/or address any health & safety related incidents/issues. NICSSA's beneficiaries are people who live and work within the local and wider community in N.I as well as frequent users from ROI. Private benefits to trustees may arise from ongoing financial and governance training, which may be transferrable to other settings. These private benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure trustees are fully skilled and informed, hence able carry out their roles in NICSSA inline with best practice.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Established in 1950, NICSSA's vision is to improve the quality of people's lives. It is underpinned by our mission to encourage people of all levels of ability to improve their physical and emotional health & wellbeing through sport & physical activity. We carry out our purpose and objectives by actively encouraging more people to get involved in
more activities and keeping them involved into later life. Evidence of our ability to deliver on our purpose is evidenced via our developed facilities & participation levels. For example: 1. 525,000 annual users at our Playball facilities (3G pitches), located at Stormont. 2. 10,000 annual participants across a range of charitable events & programmes, hosted at Stormont. To date these events have raised over £1m for charitable causes. 3. Delivery of over 100 annual personal resilience courses, and health & wellbeing exhibitions to over 3,000 participants across NI. 4. Development of new Health & Wellbeing hubs and clinics, allowing people to assess, understand, monitor & subsequently improve upon their overall health and wellbeing. 5. Annual hosting of the NI Boys & Girls Youth Festival involving 400 children per day over 3 days. 6. Annual hosting of ethnic minority soccer camps of c70 participants in total. 7. Annual hosting of holiday camps and schemes with over 70 children over a 5 week period. 8. Annual hosting of the European Pipe Band championships involving 10,000 participants across the UK and Ireland. 9. Established network of 65 workplace clubs and 14 sports clubs, located at Stormont. 10. Delivery of a range of training programmes covering mental & physical health, communication & leadership, across both the public & private sector. 11. Annual delivery of the "Ignite Community Leadership Initiative" in partnership with Cinemagic & Belfast City Airport. 12. Annual hosting of numerous conferences & exhibitions for charities including AGENI, Cancer Charities, Self Help Africa.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of amateur sport
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Ethnic minorities
- General public
- Men
- Older people
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Voluntary and community sector
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Sport/recreation
- Youth development
